I quite agree, if you say the wrong thing online or anywhere for that matter. They will send the flying quad around you house quicker than you can blink. Anything normal and they don’t even bother. I would think you would have to murder someone to get the police around your house.
Next time you are robbed tell them there is a naked pre pubescent child on your property, within 20 minutes you'll have a super intendent, 3 judges, 5 MP's and a member of the royal family at your door.
A mate of mine had his brand spanking pickup nicked after owning it for only two months, it had a tracker on it and was tracked to a traveller site, the police told him they would not even visit the site let alone retrieve the vehicle, they told my mate to go get it himself or just claim off his insurance... police are bloody useless.
And the probable outcome would be that if you had to use violence to retrieve your property, the cops would probably charge you for assaulting the criminals. It's ridiculous.
Sounds about right, I work as a plant mechanic and we've had no end of machines nabbed from sites, most recent was a little bobcat loader with two trackers on it, showed the information to the police with the trackers location, police turn up and it's a travellers site, they don't bother entering and that's that. Few years prior I had my van broken into with about 3k of tools stolen and the police didn't give two shits about that either.
That's what happened to my camper van, was traced to a traveller site next day, I rang the police while on the way there thinking they'd meet me there for backup... I got warned if I went into the site I could potentially be arrested for public order offences, breach of the peace & aggrivated trespass (private site).... couldn't make it up. Never saw it again. A camping friend is also a serving officer in that area, she spent the night in our camper a few months previous, loved it, inspired to buy one herself.... When I contacted her thinking she could pull some internal strings She instantly said forget it, we're not allowed anywhere near the site because of known Firearms and organised crime gangs operating from there, it's not safe for police even in the nearby roads, Firearms units are forbidden from entering due to risk of being overpowered and their guns stolen............ welcome to broken Britain.
Someone I know blocked some thieving "travellers" in a dead end rd after stealing his diesel pressure washer. Police wouldn't attend same story, he said I'll call some backup and sort it myself. Police then threatened him! Then they quickly turned up fearing he'd hurt the poor thieving traveller.
Said same bunch of tax evaders in bnew vans and plenty view mobile houses are again pooling in Station Car Park, Matlock, planning their next manner of aktion, disguised as hedge trimmers....
Tell the Police you’re at the address of the robber, you’re going to get the vehicle back. Tell them you have a gun! ( needle gun)😂 or tell them the robbers misgendered you, or made homophobic remarks. They’ll be there in a flash!
I had to do that to get my Welder Geny. Police said don't go. I went and told them I was outside his house Hour later they showed and tried to convince me I'd sold it a year before and was trying to get it back for free. Got it back as I was blocking the thief in.
“Why hate on the police” are you serious!! Because they are useless, worse than useless, corrupt, power crazed, arrogant…….. I could go on but what’s the point, it’s not just the met that needs dissolved, the whole lot are the same and it’s not just the UK
I've had items stolen and I got more sympathy from my cat that I did from the police. I even had a picture of the thief on CCTV and the police still were not interested. 🙄
@@ghostlight69420 theres that old ying and yang effect - if you didn't have robbers you wouldn't need the old bill - so to keep the old bill employed, nick a robber, let him out to keep them employed
I've had similar experience with the police when my wife had her handbag stolen. Weren't interested made us feel like we we're asking a favor for them to create a crime report. But if you send an "offensive" tweet then you'll have 10 units at your door within 20 minutes. Ridiculous. I hope you get your landrover sorted, sorry to hear about the tools, must be so frustrating
My house was broken into in order to get the keys to the garage, i had all my snap on, Mac and KD tools nicked. The Police did come out and i was told to remove the barb wire from the top of the fence that the previous owner had put up, if the thieving c*** had hurt himself on it i would have been prosecuted. You cant make it up.
Yeh we live and work in a rural area and had some plant,a ranger and a sportster 550 nicked by people that live in caravans.Found our gear and got it all back😉. Dealt with it ourselves. Rural police are reluctant to get involved at best.
Done that,the theives (known to cops) called the cops afterwards. Cops tried to elicit 'my accomplices) and charged me with assault(dropped eventually). Same dickhead family wrapped their car around a street light...neighbours called me,l arrived...No sympathy,just laughed at them moaning n groaning...l advised mutual friends of this lots location n when the tossers eventually got out of hospital their residence had been picked clean n several of their posh motors nicked...plus house wash trashed. Crime have more rights than citizens sadly. Cops wonder why some folks get proactive? Huh!
We've got local plod tarted up as Rural Crime units rolling around the roads of Matlock area. We've also got a 'pooljng' Regt assembling and taking over the town end of line station car park. They don't pay any local taxes but the DDD (area) Council can't wait to provide these cvanners with portaloos to use, (when they can be bothered). Their recently arrived reserves on the pay to park tarmac don't, yet there's their undies drying on the schtinky breeze, dawgs a wow wow howling., and up go out poll taxes to provide for these lifting scummers Never paying for their assumed ivernight/week/month parking provision, whilst they scan the district for their next robbing sesh . The local folk have had enough and, sod the plod, are bout to act. First encountered pikys back in 68, when living down S, and they tried to nick my brothers tricycle off him - soon sorted and recovered, but 'they : were like a rash all around Bucks, filthy swine. If recent times their descendants are swinging out Matlock abd locale. They look and smell the same as back then except today they've all got brand new trucks n vans No difference. .
I had my CAT nicked twice last year, confronted them at 2 in the morning which I wouldn't advise but got a good description but the Police where more interested in my neighbour parking too close to corner in a very quiet suburban housing estate. Really sorry to hear about your tools, mine cost a few hundred quid to sort out but yours is devastating at 14k.
Someone I know had their bike nicked, had a tracker as well, same enthusiastic response from the fuzz. They got a few mates together and a couple of vans, went and emptied the place, everything got taken, tools, shelves, doors, chairs, the kettle and tea bags, the roller shutter, literally everything. Have to do everything yourself these days. Also, if you don't already, fit trackers on stuff you think might go missing.
Happened to me - Brand new Focus ST stolen - They did attend but only to laugh at me when I suggested they get outside and do something. Response was "dont think we will be catching anyone in our transit" I pointed out if I went to the post office and stole 28K (price of my car) I would have ARV, Helicopters, Dogs - the lot. They said hardly the same, we assume you are insured and left. Mine was tracked for about 3 hours until they stripped the car, same response, "no one can attend for that" - Havent bothered with the police since. They wonder why people hate them.
13. 31 is the shute that took empty cases and links from the 7.62 coax gpmg to a bin under the gun. The ranging .50 mg was situated to the left and below the coax. The .5O was fired by the larger of the two foot peddles at the gunners feet. The long green tube on the gunners side is the emergency site. The one that was missing was the gunners main site. I am guessing that they were removed because the sight also incorporated the Lazar range finder. Mk 10 was after my time, but I think they eventually took iut the .50 as the Lazar took over.
Ah Joe mate 😢 I remember you mentioning the break in at the time and I always wondered what the story was. You’re in the same county as me and a couple of years ago they did a “police 24/7” type programme which in one episode they explained that on one night they had only 4 crews covering the whole county. It’s no better anywhere else, my firm were based in Hertfordshire and over about 10 years we had over £750,000 of vehicles, kit, fuel, batterie taken. We even had detailed video footage of robberies, police linked alarms, you name it. Never got a thing back and they didn’t attend at all for the last 6 thefts.
Wish this was longer, that was so cool seeing inside. Sorry to hear about your thieves experience, that must have been quite upsetting when it happened. I had two tractors stolen in 2018 and the police didn’t want to help at all despite the thief was selling them on eBay! So I understand your frustration at the slack police work. Keep these videos coming - all the best to you guys!
really feel for you Jo - a number of years back i had a load of tools pinched out my Land Rover too, was only a rag top, and the tools were neatly in the back, in a padlocked large ammo box bolted to the floor, they got in and spent several minutes i guess breaking in, passing tools to someone outside and making off with them, no damage done to the vehicle as the rag tops are easy peasy, i always hope they will hurt themselves in doing these things, which makes me think to set some kind of booby trap, a large spike for them to sit on (make 'em think twice) or electric shock, discharge an entire battery into them so they end up black and charred, might not be allowed i had close connections with a Landy dealership, the thieves learnt to short the alarms by unscrewing an indicator, stick in a penny and break in, all you'd get was a single beep and nothing else as it shorted out, they then pinched several Landy's from behind the dealership, neatly drove across several gardens between fence posts and away they went - probably destined for a few containers somewhere stripped down for parts and off abroad - Landy's have always been a car to nick and Land Rover have done so little to make them idiot proof (think i might patent the spike in the seat idea, hmmm, i can see a slight issue though) that always makes me niffed when a copper asks what you want them to do, well to be honest i have no idea, perhaps stay in your office out the rain, have a tea and some biscuits, get fat and perhaps have your self a nice heart attack, useless bunch of good for nothing, to be honest they are well past their best and none of them appear to be able to do the job they were tasked for, to protect persons and property, complete waste of space and i second the thoughts to breakup the Met Police, here here and lets face it, sadly most coppers are human, most have probably been in the Services, come out and the only suitable job for them is the old bill, good at pushing pens about, driving round in fast cars and terrorising the natives, as for the other end of the job once a murderer kills a 17yo girlfriend, gets 12 years and eligible for parole after 6 or so, utter madness when it comes to fingerprinting, or finding video footage, or even collecting that footage, its way too much work, no resources for any of that, get a crime number so you can make a claim on insurance and then pay through the nose when you renew, basically don't tell insurance because they will sting your ass - i had an insurance company wanted to sting me £600 guess what i said?
Neighbours of mine actually caught the thieves after they had assaulted and robbed, again, a sixty odd year old farmer living by himself. They rugby tackled them and then sat on them whilst the police arrived. Plod immediately instructed my neighbours to get off the thieves at which point the thieves ran off into the darknes while Plod watched them go. My neighbours were told they should think themselves lucky they weren't being charged with assaulting the thieves. The old chap was just forgotten about....
They should not have wasted a phone call. Simply give the perpetrators a damn good kicking they will never forget and they may learn the errors of their ways.
@@philhawley1219 that doesn't work either, a couple of years ago a house a few doors down from mine was robbed by someone known to the owner. The owner found out who it was and invited him around, they were a bit bloody when they left. The police turned up with two minibuses of police in riot gear to arrest the owner.
We had a golf stolen called the police as they drove off and then contacted the insurance first thing in the morning. The insurance company dropped off the courtesy car before the police had arrived 😂
Oh the joys of needle gunning armoured vehicles ! I have spent countless hours doing that. For some reason it causes the other people to evacuate the workshop. A real bummer about the loss of your tools.😀🇬🇧
Td5 Landrovers will still start, run and drive (30mph ish) with a non working in tank fuel pump, the fuel pump relay taken out, or the pump unplugged, so long as you don't unscrew the fuel filter or let air in the system. If the engine still runs, listen down the fuel filler to hear if the pumps running, to diagnose a non working pump, amazing they still run really...... good video as always, cheers
The first hurdle is getting past civilian call takers who have a set time to complete the call. Most times it never gets to the Bobby on the beat. A tracker activation with location is a priority call and the call takers should process that call straight away. There's three crimes for one lock up if they had. Makes my blood boil as I'm a retired cop and as one on the ground loved tracker activations to catch the little b***ards in the act. Sorry you had a shit experience with the police. I've called the police as a civilian and have had a similar experience with the call taker. 😠
@@MrHewes yeh. I get that mate. Its damn frustrating for you though when your doing the ground work to help start an investigation and nothing gets done. By the way. Love you videos as I learnt to drive a chieftain in 1987 even before I got my car licence. Great seeing the old girls being brought back to life. 👍🏻
Good old Landie!! I have an old 90 with a later 300Tdi engine out of a Disco in it. I have it dry stored currently but after five years just standing it fired up and ran straight away as soon as I took the battery charger off it. I wish i had the time to get it mot'd and on the road again!
The new thing is to clean underside of cars with some sort of laser gun or dry ice technology. Is that something you would be interested in to try or invest in for the rust cleaning in the future? Fun content! Thanks
I do quite a lot of metalwork where I need to clean junk off the surface. My go-to device, is an angle-grinder with a 'cup brush'. They are viscous on paint/ corrosion and quick - you cover area quickly! Most angle-grinders have an M14 thread, and the cup-brush just screws straight on. You're welcome. :)
Feel for ya mate. Best way to deal with c~~Ts like that is to shoot them ‘.. had it done to me a few years back . I’ll never be able to afford to replace the tools either . . On a plus I love your videos . 👍🏻😎
I had a few vans done. During the last break-in, one of the scum bags cut itself as there was blood all over it. The old bill was not interested and did not even come and take DNA from all the blood. That is a nice-looking Landy, you have no issues selling it if you wanted to. Worth fixing back up though.
I had my van back turned over one night after I forgot to put a padlock on. 2 saws, blower and hedge cutter went. If I remember right, truck insurance didn’t cover but had tool cover. After that, I’ve never left anything in of value and left the doors open but had a steering lock on. I like my TD5 😁
Sickening mate! As you said it’s the tools you collect over the years and some might be irreplaceable! Should of painted it in the same camo as that invisible electric box thing 😂😂
That is the Commanders sight that he was complaining about. The Gunners sight is missing and I didn't see the PRI, or the linkage from the gunners sight, which sits just in front of the commanders sight. At least you have the auxilary telescope which is that long sight just to the left of the gunners station. Most likely it is rusted in place as that was common even in service. Also missing was the MOST important piece of equipment, namely the boiling vessel! Sorry but I used to work on these sighting systems in the 70's and 80's.
i saw a mercedes 180 engine in the back of a VW beetle once... some extra bodywork was added, so you can actually fit anything to anything with a bit of thrudging!
Indeed, the police will drop everything and arrest YOU for threats and intimidation. Apparently the future belongs to whoever steals it first. Thank you Klaus Schwab.
I love the old Landrovers, sat my licence in one, and have owned a heap of them over the years. The last one was a Defender that had a Nissan LD28 Diesel replacement for the V8 that they come out with, and that worked brilliantly
i feel your pain , had 5k worth of snap-on taken from a van, police had crystal clear film of the filth , they were in a cloned van. great channel mate
sorry to hear about things getting stolen, thieves are the scum of the world and deserve everything bad they get thrown at them, that aside, how did y'all get into this hobby/industry? as someone who loves working on mechanical things doing what yall do would be a dream that i cant afford but im curious what yalls story is that got yall to this point, cheers from Oklahoma
Last year my van was broken in, better part of £15000 of tools taken, yes they were insured but not the point as that was 25 years of collecting them, later that week I saw some of them advertised for sale on Facebook (they didn’t even bother taking my security marking of) , I contacted the police who told me they would not be attending as they are “busy”, the only advice they gave me was that if I pretended to be a buyer and went to the thief’s house then I would be arrested for causing a disturbance. So end result is I lost my tools and the thief got protection from the police. You genuinely couldn’t make it up.
This really is turning into "four tank men and a dog" 😂 Your right about plod, they are absolutely useless these days! Scared of their own shadows! 😮 Regarding a bigger engine in the landy, you can fit a Cummins in there. 😉
The 50 cal was a useful soft vehicle gun as well as as a ranging gun. Superseded by the laser range finder it should have remained with a modified recoil damper it could have provided sustained fire not just 3 round bursts. It could fire full auto if the loader held the trigger down but Ill advised. Interested to know why this vehicle never made it to the final mark. Did it finish it's service in Berlin? Over ride master controller (OMC) switch or O MY CHRIST switch is the battery parallel switch. Absolute last resort for power in a skirmish. The Stop Running Back to secure the gun recoil is useless. Cost a colleague of mine his career, turned him into a paraplegic when the gun recoiled into him when the barrel hit an obstacle. He was tuning the radio at the time which use to be mounted in the tunnel above the BV, pre clansman. Just keep the guard made.
My workshop was broken in to, presumed police would fingerprint etc, I would have had more interest if I would have called toys r us. Managed to get me on a speeding course ok though for 36 mph. Great job👍
Either the Jag or Cummins engines from a CVR(T) will go in a Defender if you happen to have one sitting around, or if you want to make waves a series on a Duramax swap would be nice.
What a shame to hear! The front doors on the landy could be protected with Bombproof hinge guards. Along with the deadlocks they should struggle to get them off.
We had our car rammed by a driver reversing at speed to avoid road works , two sets of cctv caught it and a neighbour was an eye witness, who had words with the driver who then drove off without leaving any details, we traced him , gave all this evidence to the police , who declined to follow it up. The insurance company took him to court and recovered costs, but it still makes me 😡
The same thing happened to me over here in the states. My work truck got broken into and they got a little over $20,000 worth of tools. The police didn't want to come out and take a report or do anything about it at all
similar thing hapened to a mate of mine, awoke one morning to find a transit shaped hole where his van should have been, on a hunch he went to where a group were "camped up" for the night, there was his van. rang plod how do you know it,s your van ? it,s sign writen you may have sold it to them he managed to catch a plodwagon on it,s way to the donut shop, they were not interested in helping so he had to threaten the cops with a beating before they called for backup and arrested them. they do seem to be pretty useless unless it,s something they can deal with without leaving the comfort of their canteen / office.
I had tools and body parts stolen out of a VW, and called the police and got the same reaction. I drove around town and found all my stuff in the back of a VW. He said that he had found the tools, stereo and body parts in a bush, and I called bullshit. The cops told me to take my stuff and leave before I was arrested for obstruction. He was neither charged or arrested.
Must be in one of those slack counties, a cousin in Cornwall had his mechanics work vehicle broken into and they were round within 10 minutes of the call and got socos in. Mind you they had a run on vehicles breaks and thefts from out of area thieves and were running an op. Oh and he replaces all the accessible door bolts with anti theft head bolts.
Man, I feel ya. The worst thing is that you provided the Police with the exact location of the thieves and one of the vehicles and the cops did nothing. That is just wrong on so many levels. It can lead to people thinking the cops are involved in illegal activities and are covering up the crimes...
Defender owners wanting cheap parts are defender owners own worst enemy. I went to the Scottish Land rover show to help my brother in law at his auto jumble stall. Box van parked next to him was selling defender parts, all the same colour. It looked like 3 complete shells. They sold like hot cakes. Brother in law asked where the Irish gentleman got the vehicles. He said insurance write off auctions, flood damage auctions. 5 defenders got stolen from the show car park. Following year defenders had their own parking area with additional security including owners having cloakroom tickets that they had to present to security before leaving. 2 defenders got taken from the normal Carpark and one from the show display area. The show only lasted 3 years before being cancelled. Talking to one guy who had his 110, locked, clamped, pedal box, alarmed and tracker fitted parked behind locked drive way gates. Came home to see the 110 gone. Checked his cameras. Hiab draws up and lifted it straight onto flat bed and drove away., alarm screaming. Called the police. "It'll either be in pieces on ebay or halfway to Romania by now and that's why the tracker isn't working".
At least you still have the vehicle,the bastards took mine never to be seen again with all my tools in it,not top stuff but still not cheap,that was over 10 year ago and I still look out for it
Doors are probably coming to Canada. They sell these trucks for aboot 50-100 thousand dollars. A Chevy 4.3 litre or 292 cid make excellent conversion engines for Landy's.
Some years ago, my work van got broken into outside a chemist. The chemist told me who did it because they literally saw it happen , as I was walking back around to it, the police station was across the road from all this. I went over and told them what happened and who did it, and I got the same type of reply . They eventually lifted him, and he got 20 hours of community service to do . I lost my Sat nav ipod and mobile. And a window put through .
The Landy fired up well 👌🏻 crazy they are worth so much. Just rebuilt my D4 and runs well just some electrical issue so the compressor won’t run. Fucking nightmare 🙈 have you seen Charlie’s Sd1 with meteor engine. Wonder if you could get one in a LR chassis. Be a fun project 😂
I know what it feels like when you have lots of good tools stolen they broke into my Garage and took all of my electric tools and all my snap on, now I buy good tools but not snap on i buy us pro good tools but not the price of snap on, and I new who did it but nothing was ever done but one day and thanks for the video
The only way to get a police response is to hurt someone's feelings online. Then they will send 12 officers around within minutes.
True dat
Yes should have said I gace veen robbed, and by the way I am .......
I quite agree, if you say the wrong thing online or anywhere for that matter. They will send the flying quad around you house quicker than you can blink. Anything normal and they don’t even bother. I would think you would have to murder someone to get the police around your house.
Not if you have a Firearms Certificate registered at the address. Report a break in and plod will be there right away.
@@NotALot-xm6gz not even. My bosses place had a break in, a few WEEKS later they carried out a “routine firearms spot check”, nightmare.
Next time you are robbed tell them there is a naked pre pubescent child on your property, within 20 minutes you'll have a super intendent, 3 judges, 5 MP's and a member of the royal family at your door.
😂🤣😂🤣
Not forgetting a BBC helicopter and news team who'd been tipped off by the police.
And all with raging hard ons hoping they will get go.
That would give plod a few photos to share on line ( not all of them, the rest would be at McDonalds )
A mate of mine had his brand spanking pickup nicked after owning it for only two months, it had a tracker on it and was tracked to a traveller site, the police told him they would not even visit the site let alone retrieve the vehicle, they told my mate to go get it himself or just claim off his insurance... police are bloody useless.
seems most police agencies these days are simply arms of the central baking machine operating under a facade of authority.
He should have reported it as a homophobic attack.
And the probable outcome would be that if you had to use violence to retrieve your property, the cops would probably charge you for assaulting the criminals. It's ridiculous.
Sounds about right, I work as a plant mechanic and we've had no end of machines nabbed from sites, most recent was a little bobcat loader with two trackers on it, showed the information to the police with the trackers location, police turn up and it's a travellers site, they don't bother entering and that's that. Few years prior I had my van broken into with about 3k of tools stolen and the police didn't give two shits about that either.
That's what happened to my camper van, was traced to a traveller site next day, I rang the police while on the way there thinking they'd meet me there for backup... I got warned if I went into the site I could potentially be arrested for public order offences, breach of the peace & aggrivated trespass (private site).... couldn't make it up. Never saw it again. A camping friend is also a serving officer in that area, she spent the night in our camper a few months previous, loved it, inspired to buy one herself....
When I contacted her thinking she could pull some internal strings She instantly said forget it, we're not allowed anywhere near the site because of known Firearms and organised crime gangs operating from there, it's not safe for police even in the nearby roads, Firearms units are forbidden from entering due to risk of being overpowered and their guns stolen............ welcome to broken Britain.
Hewes: "Someone stole my years of work!"
Cops: "Wot is work, mate?"
Lmao
Burglary in this country is now effectively decriminalized.
Someone I know blocked some thieving "travellers" in a dead end rd after stealing his diesel pressure washer.
Police wouldn't attend same story, he said I'll call some backup and sort it myself. Police then threatened him!
Then they quickly turned up fearing he'd hurt the poor thieving traveller.
Said same bunch of tax evaders in bnew vans and plenty view mobile houses are again pooling in Station Car Park, Matlock, planning their next manner of aktion, disguised as hedge trimmers....
Your Land Rover looks an amazing vehicle, sorry to hear the scumbags got to it. Hope you get it up and running and repaired like new soon.
Tell the Police you’re at the address of the robber, you’re going to get the vehicle back. Tell them you have a gun! ( needle gun)😂 or tell them the robbers misgendered you, or made homophobic remarks. They’ll be there in a flash!
I know some one who did that. Immediate response.
I had to do that to get my Welder Geny. Police said don't go. I went and told them I was outside his house Hour later they showed and tried to convince me I'd sold it a year before and was trying to get it back for free. Got it back as I was blocking the thief in.
And people wonder why people dislike the police now, if your not offending someone or speeding they just arn't interested as it requires actual work
Too busy r*p*ng and m*rder*ng women.
Why hate on the police?, chances are the person Joe spoke to on the phone was from G4S.., its all been privatised.
“Why hate on the police” are you serious!! Because they are useless, worse than useless, corrupt, power crazed, arrogant…….. I could go on but what’s the point, it’s not just the met that needs dissolved, the whole lot are the same and it’s not just the UK
@@formhubfar Nope. They're employed by the police.
And if you tie up the thieves and beat them a little bit all of the sudden you're the bad guy... pffffff
I've had items stolen and I got more sympathy from my cat that I did from the police. I even had a picture of the thief on CCTV and the police still were not interested. 🙄
It’s so aggravating
@@MrHewesThe police exist to protect the gangs from good people. Act accordingly.
I'll be damned y'all got napa there
It’s only a crime if you leave a witness.
@@ghostlight69420 theres that old ying and yang effect - if you didn't have robbers you wouldn't need the old bill - so to keep the old bill employed, nick a robber, let him out to keep them employed
I've had similar experience with the police when my wife had her handbag stolen. Weren't interested made us feel like we we're asking a favor for them to create a crime report. But if you send an "offensive" tweet then you'll have 10 units at your door within 20 minutes. Ridiculous. I hope you get your landrover sorted, sorry to hear about the tools, must be so frustrating
They rather be dancing with shehe's at a pride event
My house was broken into in order to get the keys to the garage, i had all my snap on, Mac and KD tools nicked. The Police did come out and i was told to remove the barb wire from the top of the fence that the previous owner had put up, if the thieving c*** had hurt himself on it i would have been prosecuted. You cant make it up.
Yeh we live and work in a rural area and had some plant,a ranger and a sportster 550 nicked by people that live in caravans.Found our gear and got it all back😉. Dealt with it ourselves. Rural police are reluctant to get involved at best.
Done that,the theives (known to cops) called the cops afterwards. Cops tried to elicit 'my accomplices) and charged me with assault(dropped eventually). Same dickhead family wrapped their car around a street light...neighbours called me,l arrived...No sympathy,just laughed at them moaning n groaning...l advised mutual friends of this lots location n when the tossers eventually got out of hospital their residence had been picked clean n several of their posh motors nicked...plus house wash trashed. Crime have more rights than citizens sadly. Cops wonder why some folks get proactive? Huh!
We've got local plod tarted up as Rural Crime units rolling around the roads of Matlock area. We've also got a 'pooljng' Regt assembling and taking over the town end of line station car park. They don't pay any local taxes but the DDD (area) Council can't wait to provide these cvanners with portaloos to use, (when they can be bothered). Their recently arrived reserves on the pay to park tarmac don't, yet there's their undies drying on the schtinky breeze, dawgs a wow wow howling., and up go out poll taxes to provide for these lifting scummers Never paying for their assumed ivernight/week/month parking provision, whilst they scan the district for their next robbing sesh . The local folk have had enough and, sod the plod, are bout to act.
First encountered pikys back in 68, when living down S, and they tried to nick my brothers tricycle off him - soon sorted and recovered, but 'they : were like a rash all around Bucks, filthy swine.
If recent times their descendants are swinging out Matlock abd locale. They look and smell the same as back then except today they've all got brand new trucks n vans No difference. .
I had my CAT nicked twice last year, confronted them at 2 in the morning which I wouldn't advise but got a good description but the Police where more interested in my neighbour parking too close to corner in a very quiet suburban housing estate. Really sorry to hear about your tools, mine cost a few hundred quid to sort out but yours is devastating at 14k.
Someone I know had their bike nicked, had a tracker as well, same enthusiastic response from the fuzz. They got a few mates together and a couple of vans, went and emptied the place, everything got taken, tools, shelves, doors, chairs, the kettle and tea bags, the roller shutter, literally everything. Have to do everything yourself these days. Also, if you don't already, fit trackers on stuff you think might go missing.
I feel your pain buddy, having your tools lifted by some worthless scrote is a kick in the guts,
Happened to me - Brand new Focus ST stolen - They did attend but only to laugh at me when I suggested they get outside and do something. Response was "dont think we will be catching anyone in our transit" I pointed out if I went to the post office and stole 28K (price of my car) I would have ARV, Helicopters, Dogs - the lot. They said hardly the same, we assume you are insured and left. Mine was tracked for about 3 hours until they stripped the car, same response, "no one can attend for that" - Havent bothered with the police since. They wonder why people hate them.
13. 31 is the shute that took empty cases and links from the 7.62 coax gpmg to a bin under the gun. The ranging .50 mg was situated to the left and below the coax. The .5O was fired by the larger of the two foot peddles at the gunners feet. The long green tube on the gunners side is the emergency site. The one that was missing was the gunners main site. I am guessing that they were removed because the sight also incorporated the Lazar range finder. Mk 10 was after my time, but I think they eventually took iut the .50 as the Lazar took over.
Ah Joe mate 😢 I remember you mentioning the break in at the time and I always wondered what the story was. You’re in the same county as me and a couple of years ago they did a “police 24/7” type programme which in one episode they explained that on one night they had only 4 crews covering the whole county.
It’s no better anywhere else, my firm were based in Hertfordshire and over about 10 years we had over £750,000 of vehicles, kit, fuel, batterie taken. We even had detailed video footage of robberies, police linked alarms, you name it. Never got a thing back and they didn’t attend at all for the last 6 thefts.
I think you should have taken the problem in to your own hands and chased them with one of the AFVs 😂
Wish this was longer, that was so cool seeing inside. Sorry to hear about your thieves experience, that must have been quite upsetting when it happened. I had two tractors stolen in 2018 and the police didn’t want to help at all despite the thief was selling them on eBay! So I understand your frustration at the slack police work.
Keep these videos coming - all the best to you guys!
I had a truck stolen I can totally agree with your opinion on the police's response
I'd love a job like that fixing up old tanks etc. To their former glory. Awesome stuff guys 👍😎🤘
really feel for you Jo - a number of years back i had a load of tools pinched out my Land Rover too, was only a rag top, and the tools were neatly in the back, in a padlocked large ammo box bolted to the floor, they got in and spent several minutes i guess breaking in, passing tools to someone outside and making off with them, no damage done to the vehicle as the rag tops are easy peasy, i always hope they will hurt themselves in doing these things, which makes me think to set some kind of booby trap, a large spike for them to sit on (make 'em think twice) or electric shock, discharge an entire battery into them so they end up black and charred, might not be allowed
i had close connections with a Landy dealership, the thieves learnt to short the alarms by unscrewing an indicator, stick in a penny and break in, all you'd get was a single beep and nothing else as it shorted out, they then pinched several Landy's from behind the dealership, neatly drove across several gardens between fence posts and away they went - probably destined for a few containers somewhere stripped down for parts and off abroad - Landy's have always been a car to nick and Land Rover have done so little to make them idiot proof (think i might patent the spike in the seat idea, hmmm, i can see a slight issue though)
that always makes me niffed when a copper asks what you want them to do, well to be honest i have no idea, perhaps stay in your office out the rain, have a tea and some biscuits, get fat and perhaps have your self a nice heart attack, useless bunch of good for nothing, to be honest they are well past their best and none of them appear to be able to do the job they were tasked for, to protect persons and property, complete waste of space and i second the thoughts to breakup the Met Police, here here
and lets face it, sadly most coppers are human, most have probably been in the Services, come out and the only suitable job for them is the old bill, good at pushing pens about, driving round in fast cars and terrorising the natives, as for the other end of the job once a murderer kills a 17yo girlfriend, gets 12 years and eligible for parole after 6 or so, utter madness
when it comes to fingerprinting, or finding video footage, or even collecting that footage, its way too much work, no resources for any of that, get a crime number so you can make a claim on insurance and then pay through the nose when you renew, basically don't tell insurance because they will sting your ass - i had an insurance company wanted to sting me £600
guess what i said?
I also love that you guys have full blown convos inside the tank..like it's never left service lol
Police won't do shit, be better off finding the local hell's angels members and asking them to track them down. That isn't a joke either.
You guys do beautiful work!
Neighbours of mine actually caught the thieves after they had assaulted and robbed, again, a sixty odd year old farmer living by himself. They rugby tackled them and then sat on them whilst the police arrived. Plod immediately instructed my neighbours to get off the thieves at which point the thieves ran off into the darknes while Plod watched them go. My neighbours were told they should think themselves lucky they weren't being charged with assaulting the thieves. The old chap was just forgotten about....
They should not have wasted a phone call. Simply give the perpetrators a damn good kicking they will never forget and they may learn the errors of their ways.
@@philhawley1219 that doesn't work either, a couple of years ago a house a few doors down from mine was robbed by someone known to the owner. The owner found out who it was and invited him around, they were a bit bloody when they left. The police turned up with two minibuses of police in riot gear to arrest the owner.
We had a golf stolen called the police as they drove off and then contacted the insurance first thing in the morning. The insurance company dropped off the courtesy car before the police had arrived 😂
Oh the joys of needle gunning armoured vehicles ! I have spent countless hours doing that. For some reason it causes the other people to evacuate the workshop. A real bummer about the loss of your tools.😀🇬🇧
Td5 Landrovers will still start, run and drive (30mph ish) with a non working in tank fuel pump, the fuel pump relay taken out, or the pump unplugged, so long as you don't unscrew the fuel filter or let air in the system.
If the engine still runs, listen down the fuel filler to hear if the pumps running, to diagnose a non working pump, amazing they still run really...... good video as always, cheers
The first hurdle is getting past civilian call takers who have a set time to complete the call. Most times it never gets to the Bobby on the beat. A tracker activation with location is a priority call and the call takers should process that call straight away. There's three crimes for one lock up if they had. Makes my blood boil as I'm a retired cop and as one on the ground loved tracker activations to catch the little b***ards in the act. Sorry you had a shit experience with the police. I've called the police as a civilian and have had a similar experience with the call taker. 😠
I’m not anti police I wanted to do everything to help but my efforts were wasted
@@MrHewes If you're not anti-police there's something wrong with you - they have proven time and again they don't work for us.
@@MrHewes yeh. I get that mate. Its damn frustrating for you though when your doing the ground work to help start an investigation and nothing gets done.
By the way. Love you videos as I learnt to drive a chieftain in 1987 even before I got my car licence. Great seeing the old girls being brought back to life. 👍🏻
I reckon the armored land rover you've just gotten will be a much more formidable vehicle against thieves
In the end, it's still a land rover. You could break in with a bloody tea spoon.
Gutted for you mate! Your landy is beautiful 😍 hope you get her sorted, it’s heartbreaking to see her sat doing nothing😢
Good old Landie!! I have an old 90 with a later 300Tdi engine out of a Disco in it. I have it dry stored currently but after five years just standing it fired up and ran straight away as soon as I took the battery charger off it. I wish i had the time to get it mot'd and on the road again!
The new thing is to clean underside of cars with some sort of laser gun or dry ice technology. Is that something you would be interested in to try or invest in for the rust cleaning in the future? Fun content! Thanks
I do quite a lot of metalwork where I need to clean junk off the surface. My go-to device, is an angle-grinder with a 'cup brush'. They are viscous on paint/ corrosion and quick - you cover area quickly! Most angle-grinders have an M14 thread, and the cup-brush just screws straight on. You're welcome. :)
Great video and Ted was on top form, keeping an eye on you all in the tank 😂❤
Excellent as always 😅tank dog makes a inspection appearance 👍 😅
Feel for ya mate. Best way to deal with c~~Ts like that is to shoot them ‘.. had it done to me a few years back . I’ll never be able to afford to replace the tools either . . On a plus I love your videos . 👍🏻😎
I had a few vans done. During the last break-in, one of the scum bags cut itself as there was blood all over it. The old bill was not interested and did not even come and take DNA from all the blood. That is a nice-looking Landy, you have no issues selling it if you wanted to. Worth fixing back up though.
I had my van back turned over one night after I forgot to put a padlock on. 2 saws, blower and hedge cutter went. If I remember right, truck insurance didn’t cover but had tool cover. After that, I’ve never left anything in of value and left the doors open but had a steering lock on. I like my TD5 😁
Sickening mate! As you said it’s the tools you collect over the years and some might be irreplaceable! Should of painted it in the same camo as that invisible electric box thing 😂😂
That is the Commanders sight that he was complaining about. The Gunners sight is missing and I didn't see the PRI, or the linkage from the gunners sight, which sits just in front of the commanders sight. At least you have the auxilary telescope which is that long sight just to the left of the gunners station. Most likely it is rusted in place as that was common even in service. Also missing was the MOST important piece of equipment, namely the boiling vessel! Sorry but I used to work on these sighting systems in the 70's and 80's.
i saw a mercedes 180 engine in the back of a VW beetle once... some extra bodywork was added, so you can actually fit anything to anything with a bit of thrudging!
The only way to get police to do something is tell them ur on ur way to batter the robbers
Indeed, the police will drop everything and arrest YOU for threats and intimidation. Apparently the future belongs to whoever steals it first. Thank you Klaus Schwab.
I love the old Landrovers, sat my licence in one, and have owned a heap of them over the years. The last one was a Defender that had a Nissan LD28 Diesel replacement for the V8 that they come out with, and that worked brilliantly
What model defender does he have that has the slides on the back like that
i feel your pain , had 5k worth of snap-on taken from a van, police had crystal clear film of the filth , they were in a cloned van. great channel mate
So sorry to hear of your bad luck. I hope you get your tools back. That’s so frustrating.
There are some low lives in this world, and no surprises the cops didn't help. Sorry for your loss.
sorry to hear about things getting stolen, thieves are the scum of the world and deserve everything bad they get thrown at them, that aside, how did y'all get into this hobby/industry? as someone who loves working on mechanical things doing what yall do would be a dream that i cant afford but im curious what yalls story is that got yall to this point, cheers from Oklahoma
Kudos to those guys for being able to undo Defender door hinge bolts. Usually they're so corroded they just strip out.. Real mechanical skill..
1:59 I thought my third world ******** was one of a kind. But after hearing your story I have to re-consider.
so sorry to hear that I'd be devisteated too ..I have a series 3 and I've got a pedal box lock on it but the doors don't lock
Started! Well, now you've got to get that Land Rover fixed. Best of luck...!
Tell the Old bill they stole your donuts. They will be there before you hang up. 🍩 😂
Last year my van was broken in, better part of £15000 of tools taken, yes they were insured but not the point as that was 25 years of collecting them, later that week I saw some of them advertised for sale on Facebook (they didn’t even bother taking my security marking of) , I contacted the police who told me they would not be attending as they are “busy”, the only advice they gave me was that if I pretended to be a buyer and went to the thief’s house then I would be arrested for causing a disturbance. So end result is I lost my tools and the thief got protection from the police. You genuinely couldn’t make it up.
Love the banter between you guys. Be worth a day’s nail gunning just for the laughs
I always wore an N95 mask when paint chipping on ships as there’s lot of lead oxide in old ship paint. No idea if MoD tank paint is the same.
This really is turning into "four tank men and a dog" 😂
Your right about plod, they are absolutely useless these days! Scared of their own shadows! 😮
Regarding a bigger engine in the landy, you can fit a Cummins in there. 😉
It was at your local Gypsy site wasn't it
brilliant keep the vids coming
The 50 cal was a useful soft vehicle gun as well as as a ranging gun. Superseded by the laser range finder it should have remained with a modified recoil damper it could have provided sustained fire not just 3 round bursts. It could fire full auto if the loader held the trigger down but Ill advised.
Interested to know why this vehicle never made it to the final mark. Did it finish it's service in Berlin?
Over ride master controller (OMC) switch or O MY CHRIST switch is the battery parallel switch. Absolute last resort for power in a skirmish.
The Stop Running Back to secure the gun recoil is useless. Cost a colleague of mine his career, turned him into a paraplegic when the gun recoiled into him when the barrel hit an obstacle. He was tuning the radio at the time which use to be mounted in the tunnel above the BV, pre clansman. Just keep the guard made.
My workshop was broken in to, presumed police would fingerprint etc, I would have had more interest if I would have called toys r us. Managed to get me on a speeding course ok though for 36 mph. Great job👍
Either the Jag or Cummins engines from a CVR(T) will go in a Defender if you happen to have one sitting around, or if you want to make waves a series on a Duramax swap would be nice.
What a shame to hear! The front doors on the landy could be protected with Bombproof hinge guards. Along with the deadlocks they should struggle to get them off.
I am so thankful I live in a country where I can defend my property. Sorry for your losses, that’s just….frustrating to say the least.
Ah yes, the same country that has seen more than 180 mass shootings in 2023 up until May vs 1 in the UK... Gotta be thankful for those gun laws!
Same happened to me in the 80s. Insurance paid for it all. The hard part was finding all the tools to replace them.
The land rover looks wicked though!
Time to take the law in to your own hands sir
Should ask Cody to start a campaign to catch the thieves on your behalf! He doesn't look too kindly on thieves haha!
My heart got warmer when she fired up like she was singing a tune only yesterday.....good old units these
We had our car rammed by a driver reversing at speed to avoid road works , two sets of cctv caught it and a neighbour was an eye witness, who had words with the driver who then drove off without leaving any details, we traced him , gave all this evidence to the police , who declined to follow it up.
The insurance company took him to court and recovered costs, but it still makes me 😡
Mate gutted for you but the banter is on par
that really sucks man . i hope the police do something. if it was there doors and guns robbed it be a lot different
Weren’t you tempted to take a Centurion around to the location of the stolen Ranger?
Very
The same thing happened to me over here in the states. My work truck got broken into and they got a little over $20,000 worth of tools. The police didn't want to come out and take a report or do anything about it at all
Sorry to hear about your trouble with td5 and police, it's same up here.
similar thing hapened to a mate of mine, awoke one morning to find a transit shaped hole where his van should have been, on a hunch he went to where a group were "camped up" for the night, there was his van.
rang plod
how do you know it,s your van ?
it,s sign writen
you may have sold it to them
he managed to catch a plodwagon on it,s way to the donut shop, they were not interested in helping so he had to threaten the cops with a beating before they called for backup and arrested them.
they do seem to be pretty useless unless it,s something they can deal with without leaving the comfort of their canteen / office.
What a great little Landy, such a pity those muppets wrecked it, cant wait to see it make a comeback!
I had tools and body parts stolen out of a VW, and called the police and got the same reaction. I drove around town and found all my stuff in the back of a VW. He said that he had found the tools, stereo and body parts in a bush, and I called bullshit. The cops told me to take my stuff and leave before I was arrested for obstruction. He was neither charged or arrested.
I loved my TD5, 240hp and it pulled like fuck. It did like to eat clutches though!
Must be in one of those slack counties, a cousin in Cornwall had his mechanics work vehicle broken into and they were round within 10 minutes of the call and got socos in. Mind you they had a run on vehicles breaks and thefts from out of area thieves and were running an op.
Oh and he replaces all the accessible door bolts with anti theft head bolts.
What do you do when the Police can't be arsed? Baseball bats or maybe volunteers from the local rugby team.
Blimmey that landrover is loaded with goodies..👍
Man, I feel ya. The worst thing is that you provided the Police with the exact location of the thieves and one of the vehicles and the cops did nothing. That is just wrong on so many levels. It can lead to people thinking the cops are involved in illegal activities and are covering up the crimes...
Funny you should say that.
I love that landy! i know there is a cummins 6bt kit for landys, just saying ;)
afraid the police are not fit for purpose as Greg says
Who’s Greg
@@MrHewes For 24 years you've been living next door to Greg and your like.., Greg.., Greg.., who the phuck is Greg?
@@MrHewes couple of comment's below mine
I've seen a defender with a Jag V12 in it, I'm sure you could get that Meteor into it if you tried. Just lengthen the chassis a bit at the front.
That’s a real bugger of a situation.
However the no front door Defender is kinda cool for a farm vehicle
Defender owners wanting cheap parts are defender owners own worst enemy. I went to the Scottish Land rover show to help my brother in law at his auto jumble stall. Box van parked next to him was selling defender parts, all the same colour. It looked like 3 complete shells. They sold like hot cakes. Brother in law asked where the Irish gentleman got the vehicles. He said insurance write off auctions, flood damage auctions. 5 defenders got stolen from the show car park. Following year defenders had their own parking area with additional security including owners having cloakroom tickets that they had to present to security before leaving. 2 defenders got taken from the normal Carpark and one from the show display area. The show only lasted 3 years before being cancelled. Talking to one guy who had his 110, locked, clamped, pedal box, alarmed and tracker fitted parked behind locked drive way gates. Came home to see the 110 gone. Checked his cameras. Hiab draws up and lifted it straight onto flat bed and drove away., alarm screaming. Called the police. "It'll either be in pieces on ebay or halfway to Romania by now and that's why the tracker isn't working".
At least you still have the vehicle,the bastards took mine never to be seen again with all my tools in it,not top stuff but still not cheap,that was over 10 year ago and I still look out for it
Just say
"Ok, Mr Policeman. If you're not going round to investigate the tracked vehicle I'm gonna pop along with 3 carloads of lads"
Doors are probably coming to Canada. They sell these trucks for aboot 50-100 thousand dollars. A Chevy 4.3 litre or 292 cid make excellent conversion engines for Landy's.
Some years ago, my work van got broken into outside a chemist. The chemist told me who did it because they literally saw it happen , as I was walking back around to it, the police station was across the road from all this.
I went over and told them what happened and who did it, and I got the same type of reply .
They eventually lifted him, and he got 20 hours of community service to do .
I lost my Sat nav ipod and mobile. And a window put through .
Sorry to here man that really sucks. Yeah here in the US we would go get our stuff back and never call the police lol
The Landy fired up well 👌🏻 crazy they are worth so much. Just rebuilt my D4 and runs well just some electrical issue so the compressor won’t run. Fucking nightmare 🙈 have you seen Charlie’s Sd1 with meteor engine. Wonder if you could get one in a LR chassis. Be a fun project 😂
So easy to get into a Land Rover, all you need is one of the pie keys
Sadly a toddler with a screwdriver could open a landy 🙁
I know what it feels like when you have lots of good tools stolen they broke into my Garage and took all of my electric tools and all my snap on, now I buy good tools but not snap on i buy us pro good tools but not the price of snap on, and I new who did it but nothing was ever done but one day and thanks for the video
Always wondered why the keyhole was on the LHS of the column.
Easier to start once you put the battery in 😂